Experts

Gwendaline Mazzara meets the Editor of ITVNews.

During the East African famine outbreak last year, Deborah Turness had a thought: rather than send a team of reporters to Kenya and back, like every news organisation, why not keep them there to give viewers an unfolding, episodic account from the children’s ward? This bold move resulted in dramatically increased public donations and demonstrates why Deborah is currently the UK’s youngest and first female editor of network news.

In 2011, she was the only journalist invited to the Buckingham Palace State Banquet for President Obama; later that year, she was named one of London's 1000 most influential people.

Winner of numerous awards, she has presided over a series of world exclusives, including video of the arrest of the London bombers.

She is currently Editor of ITVNews, the brand of news bulletins produced by world-renowned multimedia company, ITN, for British television network, ITV. 

 The NextWomen Career Theme

If you’re going to launch and build a thriving business, Daring Greatly will be your secret weapon. That’s why we’re thrilled to feature this interview with the one and only Dr. Brené Brown, courtesy of Misty Gibbs, Founder of our partner site Empower Lounge!

In case you’ve been living on a small remote island, Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work and has spent the past twelve years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. 

The NextWomen Career Theme: Marketing

For this month’s theme, we will be interviewing a number of women from around the globe who have reached the top of the world’s most prestigious and/or male dominated professions. This is the story of Jaleh Bisharat, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected marketing executives, currently the VP of Marketing at oDesk, the world's largest online workplace.

Jaleh Bisharat has an impressive history of growing startups into vibrant brands that inspire passion in their customers, as well as inspiring other businesswomen through her mentorship. She currently leads marketing at oDesk, the world's largest online workplace. At oDesk, Jaleh helps to raise global awareness of online work -- encouraging businesses to find the talent they need on demand, and professionals to love the way they work, whenever and wherever they want via the Internet.

Before joining oDesk, she served as Vice President of Marketing at companies including OpenTable, Jawbone, and Amazon.com, also serving on the Board of Directors at OpenTable and Homestead Technologies. Jaleh was recently featured on Bloomberg TV, following a blog post about the challenges women face in balancing career and family. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government from Harvard-Radcliffe and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

The NextWomen Career Theme: Law.

For this month’s theme, we will be interviewing a number of women from around the globe who have reached the top of the world’s most prestigious and/or male dominated professions. This is the story of Baroness Helena Kennedy QC.

Baroness Helena Kennedy is a barrister, broadcaster, and member of the British House of Lords.  She is an expert in human rights law, civil liberties and constitutional issues and has received many honours for her work. Current chair of Justice, the British arm of the International Commission of Jurists, she was the Chair of the British Council and Chair of the Human Genetics Commission.  

She recently produced a report for the Equality and Human Rights Commission on Human Trafficking in Scotland and was a member of the Government Commission on a British Bill of Rights. She is the Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Institute of Human Rights.